Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

the individuals on the team, where abenefit could be learning for example. Our results, however, do not support the hypothesis thatthe guidelines that facilitate effective student teams also improve individual team memberlearning.IntroductionSoftware engineering projects at anything other than the smallest scales involve teams ofengineers. It is not surprising then, that courses in software engineering often include group andteam projects as part of both the students’ learning and their assessment. An informal survey ofthe courses in our own graduate software engineering program revealed that over half includegroup projects that contribute significantly (30% or more) to a student’s final grade. This isapparently in line with other engineering